A caravan. A small and portable pavilion. A bar. An ephemeral place of aggregation. A tribute to the Fun Palace; the legendary project of the architect Cedric Price and of the theater director Joan Littlewood who in the sixties wanted to create a street university, a laboratory of fun.<\/span><\/p>\nTo redefine what unites us, blur boundaries and celebrate interstices, the Little Fun Palace sets up shop in Montreal for the entire duration of the OFFTA! A meeting space with multiple configurations, the street caravan imagined in 2018 by Italian company Office for a Human Theatre (OHT) will tour various neighbourhoods around the city. This mobile contraption rewrites live art into public spaces by prompting fiercely joyful impromptu encounters. Discussions, performances and DJ sets are just a few of the activities from this tapestry of eclectic meetups between artists, citizens, activists and researchers.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nFirst stop of a tour that will take the caravan to Quebec City, Marsoui, Le Bic, Sherbrooke and Ottawa, this iteration, created in collaboration with artist Filippo Andreatta, will infiltrate the city to imagine flexible, non-hierarchical and locally rooted areas of exchange.<\/span><\/p>\nConsult the itinerary, the participants and the complete program by downloading the schedule above.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nFounded in 2008, OHT [Office for a Human Theatre] is the research studio of theatre-maker and curator Filippo Andreatta whose work deals with landscape, daily personal politics and public spaces.<\/span><\/p>\nOHT has achieved national and international collaborations such as Haydn Foundation (IT), NYC Artists\u2019 Salon (USA), Roma Europa festival (IT), Triennale Teatro Milan (IT), the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (USA), Whitechapel Gallery London (UK), Teatro della Tosse Genova (IT), Italian Cultural Institute of Vienna (AT), MAXXI museum of the arts of the XXI century Rome (IT), among the others. Finally, Centrale Fies has frequently been partner of various projects, either for productions or for premieres.<\/span><\/p>\nOHT has been honoured with awards for artistic excellence, including Nuove Sensibilit\u00e0 for young theatre directors (2008), Movin\u2019Up award for young artists (2016 and 2017), OPER.A 20.21 Fringe (2017) and nominated for Best Set-Design at UBU prize (2018).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
A coproduction of<\/em>
\nOHT [Office for a Human Theatre] + LA SERRE \u2013 arts vivants + Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles<\/p>\nIn collaboration with<\/em>
\nCarrefour international de th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Qu\u00e9bec + Centre de Cr\u00e9ation Diffusion de Gasp\u00e9 + Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Bic \/ Les gens d\u2019en bas + Centre des arts de la sc\u00e8ne Jean-Besr\u00e9 + Le Trillium + Salon58 + pro scena<\/p>\nIdeation <\/em>
\nOHT<\/p>\nCurators (OFFTA) <\/em>
\nFilippo Andreatta + \u00c9milie Martz-Kuhn + Vincent de Repentigny<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n